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Thank You for your guide. For me everything works fine even without reboot.xml removal. My winsxs folder only 105 mb. And I even can install all updates from window updates. Did not tested language pack as I do not need it and anyway you can integrate it before install.

The only problem I have is one channel in event log does not work. See images below. Do you have this problem then cheking administrative events?

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never remove WinSxS! Windows Vista/7 updates are diffs which need the RTM fies from the WinSxS to generate the new file. The genrated files are now stored in the WinSxS folder and mapped as hardlinks to the destination folders! So, they don't use space!!!!! Only Explorer is not able to see that the files are hardlinks and count them several times.

So, NEVER touch WinSxS folder and NEVER DELETE this folder!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!